Szacsvay Tafota
syn. Szacsvari taffota
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Transylvania, Hungary. Recorded in 1876. Fruits have crisp, somewhat coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- Fruit size
- small
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 45-50 mm
- Over colour
- flushed yellow
- Russet type
- russet at base, sometimes mingled with bright pinkish red
- Fruit height
- 33-39 mm
- Flesh texture
- crisp, somewhat coarse
- Ground colour
- ???pale green, sometimes a russet hairline???
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site